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COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
A Syntactic Time-Series Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent Speech
This paper describes an incremental approach to parsing transcribed spontaneous speech containing disfluencies with a Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model (HHMM). This model makes use...
Tim Miller, William Schuler
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Verification and Implementation of Language-Based Deception Indicators in Civil and Criminal Narratives
Our goal is to use natural language processing to identify deceptive and nondeceptive passages in transcribed narratives. We begin by motivating an analysis of language-based dece...
Joan Bachenko, Eileen Fitzpatrick, Michael Schonwe...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic Classification with Distributional Kernels
Distributional measures of lexical similarity and kernel methods for classification are well-known tools in Natural Language Processing. We bring these two methods together by int...
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Ann Copestake
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Japanese Dependency Parsing Using a Tournament Model
In Japanese dependency parsing, Kudo's relative preference-based method (Kudo and Matsumoto, 2005) outperforms both deterministic and probabilistic CKY-based parsing methods....
Masakazu Iwatate, Masayuki Asahara, Yuji Matsumoto
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Relational-Realizational Parsing
State-of-the-art statistical parsing models applied to free word-order languages tend to underperform compared to, e.g., parsing English. Constituency-based models often fail to c...
Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima'an
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Extending a Thesaurus with Words from Pan-Chinese Sources
In this paper, we work on extending a Chinese thesaurus with words distinctly used in various Chinese communities. The acquisition and classification of such region-specific lexic...
Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin Ka-Yin T'sou
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Mining Opinions in Comparative Sentences
This paper studies sentiment analysis from the user-generated content on the Web. In particular, it focuses on mining opinions from comparative sentences, i.e., to determine which...
Murthy Ganapathibhotla, Bing Liu
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Retrieving Bilingual Verb-Noun Collocations by Integrating Cross-Language Category Hierarchies
This paper presents a method of retrieving bilingual collocations of a verb and its objective noun from cross-lingual documents with similar contents. Relevant documents are obtai...
Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamashit...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
What's the Date? High Accuracy Interpretation of Weekday Names
In this paper we present a study on the interpretation of weekday names in texts. Our algorithm for assigning a date to a weekday name achieves 95.91% accuracy on a test data set ...
Pawel P. Mazur, Robert Dale
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Robust Similarity Measures for Named Entities Matching
Matching coreferent named entities without prior knowledge requires good similarity measures. Soft-TFIDF is a fine-grained measure which performs well in this task. We propose to ...
Erwan Moreau, François Yvon, Olivier Capp&e...